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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf script python: integrate page reclaim analyze
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From:   Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>, peterz@infradead.org,
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Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:36:12 -0700
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On 9/25/19 6:56 PM, Tony Jones wrote:
> On 9/18/19 7:38 AM, Yafang Shao wrote:
>> A new perf script page-reclaim is introduced in this patch. This new script
>> is used to report the page reclaim details. The possible usage of this
>> script is as bellow,
>> - identify latency spike caused by direct reclaim
>> - whehter the latency spike is relevant with pageout
>> - why is page reclaim requested, i.e. whether it is because of memory
>>   fragmentation
>> - page reclaim efficiency
>> etc
>> In the future we may also enhance it to analyze the memcg reclaim.
>>
>> Bellow is how to use this script,
>>     # Record, one of the following
>>     $ perf record -e 'vmscan:mm_vmscan_*' ./workload
>>     $ perf script record page-reclaim
>>
>>     # Report
>>     $ perf script report page-reclaim
>>
>>     # Report per process latency
>>     $ perf script report page-reclaim -- -p
> 
> 
> I tested it with global-dhp__pagereclaim-performance from mmtests and got what appears to be reasonable results and the output looks correct and useful.  However I'm not a vm expert so I can't comment further.  Hopefully someone on linux-mm can give more specific feedback.
> 
> There is one issue with Python3,  see below.  I didn't test with Python2.

Ok, I guess this wasn't actually tested with Python3 as itervalues() is Python2 only.   Any scripts need to work with both Python2.6+ and Python3.

# perf script -i /tmp/perf.out -s page-reclaim.py -- -p
...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "page-reclaim.py", line 305, in trace_end
    i.display_proc(),
  File "page-reclaim.py", line 268, in display_proc
    print_proc_latency(sorted(self.stat.stats['latency'].itervalues(),
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'itervalues'
Fatal Python error: problem in Python trace event handler

Use a try/except to handle this.

Thanks

Tony